The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.
A kind of intercolumniation in an entablature, in which only onetriglyph and two metopes are introduced.
The width of the triglyph should be divided into six parts, and five of these marked off in the middle by means of the rule, and two half parts at the right and left.
The capitals of each triglyph are to measure one sixth of a module.
Note 3: That is: two metopes with a triglyph between them, and half of the triglyph on either side.
The Greeks solved it by reducing the width of the end intercolumniation, but later critics disliked this, and solved it by removing the end triglyph from the angle and placing it axial over the end column.
The exterior is quite untouched, triglyph cornice, Doric columns, all well past the century mark.
Defn: The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.
Defn: A kind of intercolumniation in an entablature, in which only one triglyph and two metopes are introduced.
There is a triglyphover each column and one over each intercolumniation, or two in rare instances where the columns are widely spaced.
Thus we may say that the triglyph has two furrows and two half-furrows; these do not extend to the top of the block.
A triglyph is placed over the center of each column and over the center of each intercolumniation.
An exception was made at the corner, where the triglyph could not be placed in the axis of the shaft, being needed for the support of the angle.
The decoration of the lower surface of the corona shows the original motive of its wooden construction as distinctly expressed as was the formation of the triglyph in the frieze.
The slits of thetriglyph terminated at first in elliptical lines, which became, in the decline of the style, straight and horizontal.
The sheathing was consequently pinned by more numerous trunnels; and as every triglyph had been provided with a second strip, here a second board was placed under the end of each rafter.
This was the more acceptable, as the appearance of the frieze was improved by its adoption; the breadth of triglyph and metope became nearly equal and better proportioned, their alternating rhythm more pleasing.
A continuous band, like that beneath the triglyphs, terminated the frieze; but the individuality of triglyph and metope was even here maintained, the superposed member being broken around them, as a separate coronation for each.
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